The Lumia 800 isn’t even out yet, and there’s already talk of the next big Nokia smartphone on the way. The head of Nokia France, speaking to France’s LesEchos newspaper, said the company plans to have a full range of smartphones in an effort to attack every segment of the market, WMPoweruser reported today. The …
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16 November
Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy Tab hopes to get around injunction
Samsung Electronics is relaunching a modified Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany it hopes will get around an injunction won by Apple against the original product. The new product, called Galaxy Tab 10.1n, was first reported on by German news site MobiFlip, and highlighted by Foss Patents. The biggest superficial change is a metal band that extends around the device and …
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For once, T-Mobile USA got to be a part of a major technology announcement. An Android smartphone running Google Music. T-Mobile T-Mobile got to stand alongside Google as the search giant officially unveiled its music service. For its part, T-Mobile will be offering free music content to its subscribers, as well as carrier-billing support. For T-Mobile, the partnership gives the …
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16 November
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After what can only be described as a poor start for Google’s much-anticipated Gmail app for Apple’s iOS platform, the software has returned. The app, which was released earlier this month and then yanked almost immediately, had a bug that Google said broke notifications. It also served up an error message the first time users fired it up. “We’ve fixed …
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16 November
Rumor: Qualcomm 4G LTE Gobi 4000 chip likely for iPad 3
Now that Apple has its full holiday lineup for this year, rumors of next-gen products should start heating up. One such rumor follows a press release from Qualcomm, which makes the 3G chips in iPhones, saying that it seems likely that its 4G LTE Gobi 4000 chip is destined to be included in the iPad 3. “Embedded modules based on …
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16 November
Nokia Lumia 800 on sale in UK today
Nokia’s Lumia 800, the first Nokia to run the Windows Phone operating system, is on sale today in the UK. If you’ve got deep pockets and don’t want to ruin yourself with a lengthy contract, Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u have told us they will be selling the Lumia 800 SIM-free. Carphone Warehouse is flogging it for £470, while network Three is selling …
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16 November
Android leads the way in mobile malware
Android tops the charts in mobile malware, largely due to the failure of Google’s Android Market to properly review apps before they hit the marketplace, says a new report from Juniper Networks. In a blog post yesterday, Juniper found that Android malware has soared 472 percent since this past July. In particular, October and November have seen the fastest rise …
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16 November
Forward thinking: the phones of 2012
If you follow the Mayan calendar, speculation about how cool next year’s phones will be might seem kind of trivial. However, if the world doesn’t end, then we’re in for a treat next year, according to our various sources across the mobile industry. (Credit: CBSi) There have been enormous leaps forward in smartphones in the last two years, with advancements …
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16 November
Qualcomm sees Snapdragon
Qualcomm expects the first Snapdragon-powered Windows 8 PC to arrive a year from now, marking the entry into a lucrative new business for the wireless chip company. Qualcomm is already working with Microsoft to ensure that computers running on the next-generation operating system will be able to run on its chips based on ARM’s technology, which sacrifice processing power for …
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16 November
Kindle Fire has already been hacked
If there’s one thing you can say about the Android developer and hacker community, it’s that it moves incredibly fast. Each time a new smartphone or tablet finds its way into the market, the modders and hackers get to work, trying to root the device. And now, just days two days after its release, the Amazon Kindle Fire has become …
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